One of the sad but funny moments on YouTube is the Mike Schmidt retirement press conference where he breaks down and starts balling like a baby. For years after that, it was played as a part of the intro to New York radio shock jock Howard Stern’s terrestrial radio morning show.

Chase Utley could be having one of those types of press conferences soon thanks to Cesar Hernandez. No one should expect the stoic and unemotional Utley to break down, but the Philadelphia Phillies‘ longtime second baseman has to see the same type of handwriting on the wall that the longtime third baseman Schmidt saw in 1989.

Phillies GM Ruben Amaro apparently makes the lineup card out these days for manager Pete Mackanin and said Utley will not be in the lineup even after he returns from the DL. For once, Amaro is making sense with this call, because Hernandez’s success as a second baseman appears to be no fluke. He is 25 — more than a decade younger than Utley — and leads the team in batting average (.301) and walks (24). He, unlike Utley, is a switch-hitter. Since June 10, Hernandez has an average of .385 with five doubles, 10 RBIs, nine walks and an on-base-percentage of .446. It should not be surprising because, in the last season (2013) Hernandez played over 100 games, for the Phillies’ Lehigh Valley (Triple-A) team, he hit .309. In 2012, in 104 games at Double-A Reading, he hit .304. He is a proven hitter.

Conversely, Utley is carrying around a .179 average with four homers and 25 RBIs, and he’s now on the DL with an ankle inflammation. He is not getting any younger and the player who the late iconic broadcaster, Harry Kalas, called “The Man” hopefully has stashed away a considerable portion of the millions he has earned with the team.

Utley is a leader who might be too proud to take on the bench role that seems to be waiting for him when he returns from the DL, so it is easier to picture him calling a press conference announcing his retirement than it is to picture him sitting on the bench. Since Amaro, not Mackanin, has the final say, Utley knows now what he must now do. There will be no need to bring the handkerchiefs this time.

Mike Gibson is a MLB Featured Writer for www.RantSports.com. Follow him on Twitter @papreps , “Like” him on Facebook or add him to your network on Google.